Bulk importing documents

This function implements the HTTP API for bulk imports.

collection.import

async collection.import(data, [opts]): Object

Bulk imports the given data into the collection.

Arguments

• data: Array | Buffer | string

  The data to import. Depending on the type option this can be any of the following:

  For type "documents" or "auto":

  • an array of documents, e.g.

    [
      { "_key": "banana", "color": "yellow" },
      { "_key": "peach", "color": "pink" }
    ]
    

  • a string or buffer containing one JSON document per line, e.g.

    {"_key":"banana","color":"yellow"}
    {"_key":"peach","color":"pink"}
    

  For type "array" or "auto":

  • a string or buffer containing a JSON array of documents, e.g.

    [
      { "_key": "banana", "color": "yellow" },
      { "_key": "peach", "color": "pink" }
    ]
    

  For type null:

  • an array containing an array of keys followed by arrays of values, e.g.

    [
      ["_key", "color"],
      ["banana", "yellow"],
      ["peach", "pink"]
    ]
    

  • a string or buffer containing a JSON array of keys followed by one JSON array of values per line, e.g.

    ["_key", "color"]
    ["banana", "yellow"]
    ["peach", "pink"]
    

• opts: Object (optional)

  If opts is set, it must be an object with any of the following properties:

  • type: string | null (Default: "auto")

    Indicates which format the data uses. Can be "documents", "array" or "auto". Use null to explicitly set no type.

  • fromPrefix: string (optional)

    Prefix to prepend to _from attributes.

  • toPrefix: string (optional)

    Prefix to prepend to _to attributes.

  • overwrite: boolean (Default: false)

    If set to true, the collection is truncated before the data is imported.

  • waitForSync: boolean (Default: false)

    Wait until the documents have been synced to disk.

  • onDuplicate: string (Default: "error")

    Controls behavior when a unique constraint is violated. Can be "error", "update", "replace" or "ignore".

  • complete: boolean (Default: false)

    If set to true, the import will abort if any error occurs.

  • details: boolean (Default: false)

    Whether the response should contain additional details about documents that could not be imported.

For more information on the opts object, see the HTTP API documentation for bulk imports.

Examples

const db = new Database();
const collection = db.collection("users");

const result = await collection.import(
  [
    { username: "jcd", password: "bionicman" },
    { username: "jreyes", password: "amigo" },
    { username: "ghermann", password: "zeitgeist" }
  ],
  { type: "documents" } // optional
);

// -- or --

const buf = fs.readFileSync("dx_users.json");
// [
//   {"username": "jcd", "password": "bionicman"},
//   {"username": "jreyes", "password": "amigo"},
//   {"username": "ghermann", "password": "zeitgeist"}
// ]
const result = await collection.import(
  buf,
  { type: "array" } // optional
);

// -- or --

const result = await collection.import(
  [
    ["username", "password"],
    ["jcd", "bionicman"],
    ["jreyes", "amigo"],
    ["ghermann", "zeitgeist"]
  ],
  { type: null } // required
);